Pumpkin Patch

I know this is super lame but we took the kids to a pumpkin patch so i could take super cute pictures and not have to buy a zillion pumpkins and hay bails. we were suppose to go to cal poly's pumpkin patch but the kiddies got super sick so we stayed home. this pumpkin patch was my desperate attempt to get some cute pictures and i have to say i got some awesome pictures. my 2 almost 3 year old now understands what a jumper is and this pumpkin patch had like 15 different ones. i did eventually give in and let her go play in 1 jumper. the "tickets" you had to purchase were 5 dollars each and they could choose one jumper and jump in it for 5 minutes. it was such a rip off but it sure did make her just a little bit happier and her day just a little bit brighter.          

Pumpkin Painting

when Madison's first Halloween came around 3 years ago she was almost 11 months old. plenty old enough to participate in pumpkin carving some how but i was not giving her a knife or even a "safety" knife so i scowered the internet for another option and found painting pumpkins. it's been a big hit every year. This year I decided to get Caleb a small pumpkin and let him try it. I was pretty sure he was going to just eat all the paints since he's at that age where everything goes in his mouth. much to my surprise he actually painted the pumpkin by sticking his hands in the paint and rubbing it on the pumpkin. It was super fun both of the kids pumpkins came out great, Madison tried her hand with a paint brush this year and did pretty good.

 She loves to paint!

Did i mention he painted himself as well as the pumpkin!

Big Boy bath time

Now that Caleb can sit up in the bath tub all by himself and he doesn't need any support bath time is getting so much more fun and he can take a bath with sister which they both seem to enjoy. I'm not going to lie the bathtub is getting a little tight and we don't have a real bathtub in the house only two walk in showers so looks like bath time will probably have to be separate from now on.

Chino Children Museum with friends

Madison and Caleb are getting big enough now that we can go places and they are fun for both. we needed something to do on a Saturday and the chino children's museum is right around the corner and always a big hit with both the kids.

 

i'm in love with this picture of Caleb on the police motorcycle at the museum. 

 Madison loves to play house at the children's museum.

Fun September Pictures

 she got herself dressed and did her own hair. I'm so proud! ha ha

 

Playing a little hide and seek with mommy...i think she is starting to understand this one

 sensory and fine motor therapy with Mrs. Sana

 my two little crazies!

 Just doing a little grocery store checkout belt surfing.

 Having a sister means I'm going to get dressed up like a princess until i can play dress up by myself.

Half birthday!!!! 6 Months

Wow 6 months already!! where has the time gone every time i turn around i feel like Caleb has grown another month. This boy has stolen my heart. When he smiles it seems like the world stops for just a second. this kid is rather smart. He has played in his walker since he was about 4 months old. in just 60 short days he has learned how to really move that thing around and boy he is so interested in getting into everything he can reach. I'm learning he can reach a lot more than i realized. I didn't have to baby proof the house with Madison except to cover the outlets and that really was all precautionary more than necessity. however with Caleb it really will be a different experience he has already found both trash cans in the kitchen and as he is learning to move the walker where he wants it to go he gets right to them and takes them to the floor trying to get into them.



He had his 6 month wellness check up and he's getting big fast:

16 lbs 6 oz (50 %)
27 inches (60 %)
head 16 3/4 inches

he got new cloths this month too! he can now wear clothes size 6-9 months although he has been in the pajamas for that size for about a month.

here's his new skills this month:

• he started chewing and biting on everything
• Lifts head when pulled to a sitting position
• Rolls from back to stomach and always sleeps on his stomach now but still cant roll from stomach to back
• Bears majority of weight when being held in a standing position
• Grasps and controls small objects
• Holds bottle fairly well but gets tired quickly and lets go
• Grabs feet and pulls to mouth
• Adjusts body to see an object
• Turns head from side to side and then looks up or down
• Prefers more complex visual stimuli ( he loves TV)
• he chatters and talks all the time mostly when we are talking to him
• Recognizes parents and looks for Dada when i ask him where's Dada?
• starting to interact with Madison and when he can get her attention he loves to "chat" at her
• he learned to sit with support from the boppy pillow

 

here's a pretty typical daily schedual:

7:30 wake up/bottle (7oz)

9:30 babyfood fruit/rice cereal

9:45 down for nap (sleeps about 1 1/2 hours) sometimes wakes up around 11:00

11:30 wake up/ bottle (7 oz)

12:00 Babyfood vegetable

1:30 nap (depending on morning nap sleeps 1 to 2 hours)

3:30 wake up/bottle (7oz)

6:00 babyfood vegetable and rice cereal

7:00 bath

7:30 bottle/bedtime

*sometimes he wants to sleep and he gets really grouchy around 6:30*

learned to sit up

 He started off only sitting for a few seconds but within like 2 weeks he was sitting like a champ and the pillow became pretty much precautionary